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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">For example, if you take your stand on a moral viewpoint—which is itself altogether wrong from the spiritual point of view—there are people who apparently lead an altogether perfectly moral life, who conform to all the social laws, all the customs, the moral conventions, and who are a mass of impurity—from the spiritual point of view these beings are profoundly impure. On the other hand </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">there are some poor people who do things... who are born, for instance, with a sense of freedom, and do things which are not considered very respectable from the social or moral point of view, and who can be in a state of inner aspiration and inner sincerity which makes them infinitely purer than the others. This is one of the big difficulties. As soon as one speaks of these things, there arises the deformation produced in the consciousness by all the social and moral conventions. As soon as you speak of purity, a moral monument comes in front of you which completely falsifies your notion. And note that it is infinitely easier to be moral from the social point of view than to be moral from the spiritual point of view. To be moral from the social viewpoint one has only to pay good attention to do nothing which is not approved of by others; this may be somewhat difficult, but still it is not impossible; and one may be, as I said, a monument of insincerity and impurity while doing this; whereas to be pure from the spiritual point of view means a vigilance, a consciousness, a sincerity that stand all tests.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22-december-1954#p20 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22-december-1954#p2]

== <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Perfect mental purity: a spotless mirror constantly turned towards the Divine.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p12 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p12] ==